Aseptic sputum-receptacle and holder.



'NU. 709,l64. Patented Sept. "3,1902.

0. M. LANGHORNE. ASEPTIC SPUTUM RECEPTACLE AND HOLDER.

(Application filed June 27, 1901.|

(No'ModeL) m p m ATTORNEY' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CATHERINE MUNRO LANGHORNE, OF PLAINFIELD, NEl/V JERSEY.

ASEPTIC SPUTUM-RECEPTACLE AND HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,164, dated September 16, 1902.

Application filed June 27, 1901- Serial ITO-66,215. (No model.)

To (0Z7, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CATHERINE MUNRO LANGHORNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Aseptic Sputum-Receptacles and Holders Therefor,

of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The objects of my invention are to provide a plurality of sputum-receptacles consisting of small bags or pockets composed of thin paper, such as tissue, so treated as to be at once Waterproof, deodorizing,and disinfecting, these being designed to be carried in the pocket of my improved form of holder therefor, which consists of a'bag 0f flexible material waterproof and usually formed of flexible rubber sheeting, and is providedwith devices by which the same may be buttoned to the garment of the person'using the same, which holderis provided with an outerpocket for carrying thesputum-bags and with an inner and larger pocket provided with a sponge or other mass of absorbent material saturated with any desired kind of deodorizing and disinfecting liquid or material.

In the accompanyingdrawings,formiugpart "of this specification, in which like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a waist or upper garment upon which is secured my improved form of sputumholder. Fig. 2 is a front view thereof upon an enlarged scale, the-same being open. Fig.

tion will be in line with the slits at 10.

3 is a side view thereof in central vertical section, and Fig. 1 is a front view of one of the sputum bags or receptacles to be used therewith.

The sputum-receptacle (shown in detail in Fig. 4) is composed of thin tissue-paper or other thin flexible material and is usually in the shape of a small bag 9 and is formed by taking a rectangular. sheet of material, slitting it transversely at the opposite sides at 10, then folding the bottom portion 11 upwardly to form the bag, this fold being so made that the upper edge of the folded por- The sides 12 are then folded upon the central portion and secured thereto by gum or other suitable material, and a bag is thus formed which is provided with an opening at 13 and with a flap 14:, which can be folded down over said opening, so as to close it, and before or after forming this bag or receptaclethe material or bag is usually soaked in or in any other way impregnated with any suitable germicide, such as listeriue or any of the bichlorids. To carry these receptacles and to receive the same with their contents after use, I provide a bag 15, usually of the elongated form shown, formed of flexible rubber sheeting or any other suitable waterproof material, which is provided with the four side tangs 16 and with the bottom tang 17, each of which is provided with a buttonhole, as shown, by which the same is secured upon the garments ofthe wearer upon buttons 18,

as shown in Fig. 1, and this bag or holder is provided at the top with a closing-flap 19, formed by an extension of the back sheet of the bag provided with a buttonhole 20, by which the same is secured upon a stud 21, so as to close the same, and such bag, in addition to the tangs 16 and 17, may be, ifdesired, provided with a rear-like central securingtang 22, as shown in Fig. 3. Within the bag 15 isplaced a body of any suitable disinfecting material 23, usually consisting of a small sponge or other like absorbent material thoroughly saturated with formaldehyde or any other suitable volatile disinfecting material, which as it evaporates from time to time may be renewed by pouring additional amounts of the same liquid upon such sponge or ab-.

sorbent material.

Carried in any desired manner by the bag 15 is a second bag or pocket 24, designed to hold a plurality of the tissue-paper sputuim receptacles 9, which bag or pocket 24:, for reasons of cleanliness and in order to allow of.

proper cleansing of the entire apparatus from time to time,[ prefer to form, as shown, of a front piece 25 and a rear piece 26 of flexible sheet-rubber of like material as that of which the bag 15 is formed, provided at the points 16 with slits adapted to receive the lower pair of side tangs 16 of the bag 15 and provided at the bottom with a like slit 17', adapted to receive the bottom tan g 17, whereby such bag 24 is removably secured upon the outer side of the bag 15, such bag 24 being usually provided with open corners at the lower side, as shown in Fig. 2, through which usually project the ends of the sputum receptacles or bags 9, as shown in dotted lines in said Fig. 2.

Secured to the rear sheet 26 of the bag 24 is a stud 27, upon which the top of the front sheet 25 maybe buttoned, as shown in Fig. 3, and such rear sheet 26 extends upward in the form of a flap 28, which may be buckled up over the stud-button 21 to hold the same in the open position or down over the stud 27 to form an additional closure to the bag 24, as may be desired.

The forward face-sheet of the bag 15 is usually provided with a flap portion 19 similar to the flap 19, which may be turned over backward and inward, as shown'in Fig. 3, so as to make an automatic closure, so as to prevent the working upward of the used sputumreceptacles 9, which have been passed down by the same into such bag 15 in a closed and crumpled form, as shown at 30.

It of course is evident from the foregoing description that the tissue-paper receptacles 9 are designed to be used one by one for the reception of the sputum of the patient wearing the same andimmediately after such use are folded down from the top, crumpled into a small wad, and inserted in the bag 15, from which they are removed from time to time.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A sputum-holder composed of a bag formed from a sheet of flexible waterproof material and provided with means for securing it to a garment, the top of the bag being provided at the back with a closing-flap and at the front with a button-stud with which said flap may be connected, and an upper flap portion formed by an extension of the front top portion of the bag and adapted to be turned backwardly and downwardly into the bag, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a bag formed of flexible waterproofed material provided with flaps 1'9 OATIIE RINE MUNRO LANGIIORNE.

Witnesses:

L. R. BAYER, '1. A. STEWART. 

